体验经济视域的主题公园经营管理

作为一种新兴体验式旅游产品,主题公园得到了当下越来越多人众的认可和接受,在世界各国发展迅速。在中国主题公园虽然在短期内得到了从无到有的快速发展,但同时也在经营管理方面存在着诸多问题,亟待我们研究和解决。文章基于体验经济核心理论,对主题公园的概念、特点等内容进行了整合性归纳、描述,同时相应地提出了营造良好体验的措施策略,进而对主题公园产业在体验经济大背景下的未来发展趋势进行了总结。     

Integrating consumers’ motives with suppliers’ solutions to combat Shanzhai: A phenomenon beyond counterfeit

Imitation goods are widely spread throughout the global business world. Shanzhai imitation (

) represents a type of imitation that mimics the original brand through surface or functional similarities but often provides enhanced or innovative features adapted to local market needs. Although both practitioners and academics have studied and provided solutions to combat counterfeits, solutions for original brand manufacturers to address threats from Shanzhai products are lacking. In this article, we first differentiate Shanzhai products from counterfeits. Using a mixed-method approach that combines interviews and laboratory experiment results, we then identify social, individual, functional, and financial (SIFF) factors as driving forces behind consumers’ purchasing of Shanzhai products. Shanzhai buyers place more weight on functional value and price/quality ratio than do counterfeit buyers, who in turn favor social value and materialism more than Shanzhai buyers. Finally, we provide several recommendations to original manufacturers from both the demand and supply sides.     

Self-Regulation for Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA): Analysis of OBA Notices

This study assessed how and to what extent self-regulation of online behavioral advertising (OBA) is executed on participating companies' websites. Based on the principles of OBA, as outlined by the Digital Advertising Alliance and Federal Trade Commission, we analyzed the format of OBA notices, explanation of OBA notices, opt-out options, transparency, and use of unacceptable notices. A series of content analyses was done in the years 2013 and 2015. Our results indicated slight improvements over the years, but the specific details of the implementation continued to fall short of the standards. In terms of accessibility and visibility, many websites demonstrated problematic presentations or lack of the components necessary to increase consumers' understanding and control over the practice of OBA.     

PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION WITH CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINT

This article studies the public good provision problem, in which the principal faces a constitutional constraint in the sense that in order for a public good provision mechanism to be implemented, it must first be approved by agents under a prespecified voting rule. I find that as long as the voting rule is not the unanimity rule, the principal can propose a mechanism such that first‐best efficiency of provision of the public good is achieved. I also consider various constraints, such as prohibition of discriminatory mechanisms and the existence of vote buying, and discuss optimal voting rules in these situations.     

Who benefit from government-led microfinance projects? Evidence from rural China

Drawing from a unique dataset of 2356 Chinese villages, this paper assesses the anti-poverty effect of the largest government-led microfinance project in the developing world. We find that the project can significantly increase the income level in the targeted villages. The main engine of the project lies in the expansion of access to nonfarm activities. We also highlight the importance of institutional circumstance in the effectiveness of the project. Specifically, a more democratized village with less political connection to local governments reaps more benefits from its participation.     

Effects of a holiday trip on health and quality of life: evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea

We examine whether having a holiday trip affects an individual’s well-being, namely quality of life, health status, stress level and health behaviours. We use the two-stage estimation method to control for endogeneity of a travel experience, exploiting a natural experiment of distributing Travel Vouchers at random among qualified applicants in South Korea in 2012. We find that, for applicants whose decision to travel is influenced by receiving a voucher, a travel experience has no significant effects on the traveller’s well-being measured 3–12 months later. We also find that the OLS estimates overstate benefits of a travel.     

The effect of immigrants on the extensive and intensive margins of trade

This study examines the impact of immigrants on the extensive and intensive margins of South Korean exports. Since trade data contain excessive zero trade flows, we adopt recently suggested Poisson and Gamma pseudo maximum likelihoods. ???Our finding shows that immigrant stock in South Korea has significant effect on both the extensive and intensive margins of South Korean exports. Immigrants’ network seems to decrease variable as well as fixed costs of trade.     

Effects of government spending shocks in China,Japan, and Korea

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the effects of government spending shocks on various key macro variables in China, Korea, and Japan using structural VAR models. The main empirical findings are as follows. Government spending multipliers of all three countries are far larger than 1 in recent years. The effectiveness of fiscal expansion has not changed markedly in China but substantially increased in Korea (after the Asian financial crisis) and Japan (during zero lower bound period). Increases in the effectiveness of fiscal expansion are associated with changes in the monetary and exchange rate policy regimes and institutions of these countries. Among the three countries, the government spending multiplier is relatively large in China but relatively small in Japan in recent years. Although the effects on exchange rate and trade balance vary across countries and sample periods, real exchange rate tends to depreciate, whereas trade balance tends to improve under flexible exchange rate regimes. Some empirical findings are consistent with standard theory, but others are not.

Abbreviations: NK: New Keynesian VAR: Vector Autoregressive ZLB: Zero Lower Bound     

金融排斥对中国县域经济影响研究:实现路径与动态特征

文章基于2006-2010年2 578个县(市)的大样本数据,从区域角度对我国金融排斥状况进行了全景式考察,分析了金融排斥对当地经济的影响效应及实现路径.研究发现:(1)东部地区金融排斥呈下降趋势,中西部则呈上升趋势,金融资源使用效用性的非均衡发展是导致东部与中西部地区差距扩大的主要原因;(2)金融排斥对县域经济具有显著的负向影响,但金融排斥并非随当地经济增长而必然减少;(3)我国金融排斥逐渐呈现出由"设施缺乏指向"转为"机制缺乏指向"、由"个体特征指向"转为"区域禀赋指向"以及农业产业链前端受金融排斥加重三大特征.文章不仅提供了来自大样本的"中国证据",而且为决策部门综合动态把握金融排斥情况,更有针对性地制定相关政策提供了可靠参考.     

基于群组决策特征根法的高技术企业知识产权开发评价指标识别

由于高技术企业知识产权开发评价影响因素多,涉及内容广,因此评价指标识别是高技术企业知识产权开发水平评价的关键环节。通过对当前高技术企业知识产权开发影响因素的分析,建立了高技术企业知识产权开发评价初选指标。运用群组决策特征根法对高技术企业知识产权开发评价初选指标的关键性和重要性进行识别,构建了高技术企业知识产权开发评价指标体系,为高技术企业知识产权开发水平的测度和评价提供了科学的方法和新的思路。